On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:40:58 +0000 (UTC) [email protected] wrote: > On 02/11/13 23:40, Kill Your TV wrote: > > Yes, optical media will boot fine, as do manual installations to USB > > media on this laptop. Only installations with the Tails installer > > fail to boot on this machine. > > Hi, thanks for you very detailed bug report!
No problem. "It doesn't work!" is the bane of my existence. :) > The USB stick installed by Tails Installer has a GPT partition scheme. > Some laptops force UEFI boot when they see GPT partitions, and Tails > cannot boot using UEFI. I think this is what is happening to you. And > that would explain that the same USB stick boots all-right on other > laptops, and that other manual installation methods work on this > laptop. I suspected it might be something like that. > What you could do it try to tweak the BIOS settings to disable UEFI or > force legacy when trying to boot from the USB stick. I don't know if > that is possible on your laptop. Being a 'greybeard' of sorts I don't know anything about UEFI. As as typically the case with consumer-level machines, there are no "advanced settings" available in the BIOS configuration screens. Perhaps they're available with some magic keystroke incantation. <Shrug> When I sent the original email I was under the impression that the BIOS firmware was up to date. It was not. After flashing the BIOS it now works on this friend's laptop. Sorry for the noise.
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